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Gogoro Batteries Power 90% of Taiwan’s Electric Scooters

CleanTechnica EVs

Best known for the compact battery-swap vending machines placed outside of convenience stores and take-out shops, Gogoro is leading the charge for electric scooter sales in Taiwan — but that’s not the biggest news.

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Why Silicon Valley Cares About Silicon Again

Cars That Think

Eighty percent of the world's chips are made in Taiwan, and China has found the choke point of the world economy—those fabs. There's a scramble to build fabs outside Taiwan, but that will take two to three years. I think it is going to be battery power ," he said. But that has suddenly changed.

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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

Cars That Think

It is particularly critical where battery weight, size, and capacity is a precious resource, such as in small and mobile devices like distributed sensor networks, autonomous robots, wireless communication, and real-time systems. “I The IEEE Fellow’s research focuses on developing energy-efficient computing systems.

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VisIC and ZF partner on R&D effort to develop EV inverter based on GaN semiconductor technology; focus on 400V

Green Car Congress

The inverter—which converts DC power from the traction battery to AC power that drives the motor—is a key part of the electric drive chain. This conversion comes from a complex sequence of switching events which reconstruct an AC signal from the DC output of the battery.

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